A Little Monastery in Tuscany
1988 · 56 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 137 VOTES · DIR. Otar Iosseliani
Overview
It is a brief documentary which records the life of five Augustinian monks in the little monastery of Castelnuovo dell'Abate, a Tuscan village, as well as the everyday life of people in the small town, from farmers to meat-hackers, from wine-makers to wild boar hunters.
Dialogue Timeline — 16 lines
00:01:38 A LITTLE MONASTERY IN TUSCANY
00:01:42 A FILM BY OTAR IOSSELIANI
00:01:54 In Castelnuovo dell'Abate by Montalcino
00:01:57 not far from Sienna, lives a community of five Augustine monks:
00:02:00 Father André Forest, Father Etienne Roze, Father Olivier Nelle
00:02:03 Brother Emmanuel Roze, Brother Jean-Charles Leroy.
00:02:06 " If we want to know the values of the possessions of the land
00:02:09 we must consider them from our deathbed :
00:02:11 those honours, those distractions
00:02:13 those possessions will be taken away from us one day.
00:02:15 We must consequently strive to sanctify ourselves and nurture ourselves
00:02:18 on the only possessions that will follow us into eternity. "
00:02:21 Saint Alphonse of Liguori
00:53:24 Here ends the first part of this film
00:53:26 the next part will take place in twenty years time
00:53:29 in the same place with the same characters, if all goes well.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed16
Dialogue density0.3 lines / min
First line00:01:38
Final line00:53:29
Production Record
DirectorOtar Iosseliani
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes137